This one's for all the haters out there who criticized me at the start of the season when I did a TV spot saying Grossman would be an adequate fill-in for Peyton Manning owners. Jerks! If you've gotten this far, I'm assuming you don't need QB help. But if you do, a matchup against the Vikings isn't all that bad, especially if it's a Good Rex day. And really, who else are you gonna pick up? Kyle Orton? Last week: 185 pass yards, 1 TD, 2 int This week: vs. Minnesota

This one's for all the haters out there who criticized me at the start of the season when I did a TV spot saying Grossman would be an adequate fill-in for Peyton Manning owners. Jerks! If you've gotten this far, I'm assuming you don't need QB help. But if you do, a matchup against the Vikings isn't all that bad, especially if it's a Good Rex day. And really, who else are you gonna pick up? Kyle Orton? Last week: 185 pass yards, 1 TD, 2 int This week: vs. Minnesota

Ummm, why not? He just threw for nearly 300 yards and took down the supposedly unbeatable Packers. Now he gets the porous-at-best Raiders D. Let's put it this way: I'd start him over Caleb Hanie any day of the week, and twice on Christmas. Last week: 299 pass yards, 0 TD, 0 int This week: vs. Oakland

Ummm, why not? He just threw for nearly 300 yards and took down the supposedly unbeatable Packers. Now he gets the porous-at-best Raiders D. Let's put it this way: I'd start him over Caleb Hanie any day of the week, and twice on Christmas. Last week: 299 pass yards, 0 TD, 0 int This week: vs. Oakland

McCaskey must have some thoughts on this death spiral. Seems a good time to hear them.

Tip to McCaskey: If you ever emerge to offer opinions, don’t pull a Ricketts and tell us there’s nothing wrong with your team, that it’s just injuries. Don’t be that guy. Don’t come off that stupid and insulting.

You can start with Jay Cutler’s injury and then go to Matt Forte’s injury, but remember, every team has injuries and there’s no rule against stocking your roster with quality depth.

In fact, it’s recommended by a lot of teams that have won Super Bowls. The Bears, though, have not won the Super Bowl since Ditka and played in the game only once since then.

What’s worse, the Bears have made the playoffs only once in what will become five seasons since that Super Bowl loss.

Doesn’t somebody have to take the blame for this mess?

That’s the big question for McCaskey, and there are suspects everywhere that would give us some insight as to whether this McCaskey’s chairmanship will be useful or useless.

For instance, does McCaskey hold Ted Phillips accountable?

Is Jerry Angelo on Phillips?

Is Caleb Hanie’s inexhaustibly bad month on Angelo?

Angelo famously said he’s in the solution business, and maybe McCaskey believes the solution is to whack Angelo and Phillips. That’s what someone with a plan might do it.

Or is this a Mike Martz issue, and if so, is this also on Lovie Smith for a system that doesn’t seem to work with the talent on the roster?

Maybe it’s me, but I imagine fans would love to have the chairman ask the coach and coordinator why Donovan McNabb wasn’t brought in. I imagine fans also would love for McCaskey to ask the coach and the coordinator why they endorse a system that a veteran quarterback couldn’t pick up in a week.

But wait. There’s more.

Who wears this group of receivers?

Offensive line, same question.

Why does this team draft and start new safeties every year?

Defensive tackles, same question.

I would hope that McCaskey has been around long enough to ask why the personnel and coaching department can’t seem to figure out those two positions --- the two most important spots in Smith’s base defense.

I don’t know what McCaskey knows. I’m just throwing out ideas here that might tell us something --- what he knows, what he cares about, how angry he is, what he plans to do about it.

McCaskey has said it’s all about Super Bowls with the Bears. Good. It should be. That’s the object of the exercise. So, now what?

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